In the past week tensions have ramped up between the USA and North Korea. Donald Trump is promising ‘fire and fury’ and boasting about his nuclear arsenal and North Korea is making ...
Fake Morality is Deceiving the Public
During last year’s US Presidential election, Buzzfeed reported on sexual allegations about Donald Trump that they were unable to confirm, yet they ...
Manchester, London Bridge, Nice, Berlin. The list goes on.
Jeremy Corbyn recently stated that the rising threat of terrorism could be directly traced to British foreign policy and intervention in ...
There are lots of different and often contradictory reports about how the Prime Minister operates. Some say that she relies on advisors, while others say that she makes decisions unilaterally with ...
In the wake of a terrorist attack in London earlier this month, a U.S. congressman wrote a Facebook post in which he called for the slaughter of "radicalized" Muslims. "Hunt them, identify them, and ...
Surveys since the election demonstrate that Theresa May is consistently losing support
Following last week's Queen's Speech, as Theresa May tried to make an unholy partnership with the DUP to make a ...
At the end of election night, the prospect of a DUP-Tory coalition provoked a lot of dread. The DUP was UKIP before UKIP, and has very hard lines – to put it diplomatically – on many ...
The election is over and the dust has not yet settled on one of the most turbulent periods in British democratic history. In the General Election, the EU Referendum and the Snap Election we have all ...
The academic Corey Robin in his book, The Reactionary Mind, argues that ‘the right is fundamentally inspired by hostility to emancipating the lower orders’ and that there is an ...
There are lots of reasons why the Conservative election campaign went wrong. A few things come immediately to mind: a botched manifesto, complacency, a lack of vision, a jingoistic approach to ...
Jeremy Corbyn lost Thursday’s election. You wouldn’t have guessed it from the reaction: Labour celebrated an election loss like a victory, and slightly dim-witted socialists overseas ...
We did actually have an article prepared for a hung parliament with the Conservatives as the largest party and popular vote winner. It was about their collapse, May’s humiliation and the ...
The Prime Minister, Theresa May, took questions after her stump speech this morning. She has rarely allowed access to journalists during the campaign so far, and has only taken the occasional ...
Read more: Theresa May takes questions from the press
John McDonnell has unveiled Labour's tax plans this morning. According to the party, 95% of people will pay no adittional tax under a Labour government. On Marr, the Shadow Chancellor said that those ...
Read more: John McDonnell unveils Labour tax plans
During the campaign, President Donald Trump promised to build a wall across the southern border some 1,000 miles long. The number of miles the president currently has money for: seven.
U.S. Customs ...
One brown bear steps up to a conveniently located river-lectern to growl about Trump's new bill permitting hunters to target bears during hibernation. - The Late Show with Stephen ...
Venezuela seemed to be holding its breath expectantly at what will happen after the Supreme Court of Justice assumed the role of the National Assembly and permitted President Nicolas Maduro to take ...
US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order rolling back much of former President Obama’s climate change policy. The Energy Independence Executive Order suspends more than a dozen ...
Donald Trump's new budget proposal slashes funds for the arts, humanities, and Meals on Wheels. In fact, it's so vile that Stephen's identical twin cousin returned to praise ...
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Faced with growing U.S. protectionism, Germany will try to work with the new administration in Washington to defuse the tension mounting between them.
At the same time, Berlin will ...
We could be set for a long night. The EU Withdrawal Bill is back in the House of Commons, after amendments were included in the Lords last week. Government ministers have urged the house to pass the ...
Ivan Rogers, who has resigned as the UK’s permanent representative to the EU was known to his peers as a public servant who genuinely understood the value of the neutral pursuit of the national ...
A landmark speech by Theresa May, the prime minister of the UK, setting the direction of the country for its foreseeable future appears to place Britain firmly outside of the EU. May has ...
Britain’s membership of the European single market has become the most contentious issue in the post-Brexit debate. And the legal issues involved are proving rather ...
Today, Theresa May told us what Brexit means. It means hard Brexit, and an awful lot of those who had been asking to know probably wish they hadn’t asked. May not only plans to leave the EU, ...
Like many others, I'm fed up with both campaigns on either side of the EU Referendum question. I'm whole heartedly behind Britain staying in the EU but for basically none of the reasons being ...
It’s been a tough month for David Cameron and George Osborne. Among a whole host of other things, Iain Duncan Smith resigned as Secretary for Work and Pensions, citing the controversial changes ...
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ISIS are winning the war on social media. The size of their following is making it virtually impossible for social networks to stop ISIS jihadis spreading their ...
http://youtu.be/BbyZYgSXdywThe Ukrainian security services have released a video allegedly containing intercepted phone conversations between pro-Russian rebels in the immediate aftermath of the ...
http://youtu.be/jw2c70kMA_0In the run up to the World Cup, many are asking 'are FIFA corrupt'? The decision to award Qatar the 2022 world cup seemed odd at the time, Qatar being a a country with no ...
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Yesterday King Juan Carlos of Spain announced that he intended to abdicate, allowing his son Prince Felipe to become king. King Juan Carlos has been a pivotal figure in ...
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The Labour Party decided that the best way to connect with the electorate was to parody a film from the 1950's. Where it is well done and is surprisingly enjoyable for a ...
http://youtu.be/Up4VtjdkA3ADutch far-Right leader Geert Wilders predicts Nigel Farage and Marine Le Pen will join with his party to create the European Parliament's third-biggest bloc.
Wilders is ...
The flurry of excitement over the P5 + 1 talks in Geneva this week relegated Israel-Palestinian peace talks to the fringes of diplomatic concern. With the resumption of Iranian nuclear talks ...
MoreA return to the Israeli-Palestinian slog
Now seems a better time than any to delve into the murkiness that surrounds Iranian foreign policy. After his impressive victory this year, what is Rouhani up to? Is he simply another Khamenei ...
